- Hazel: ...the Church of Christ Without Christ. Where the blind can't see, the lame don't walk, and the dead stay that way.
- Hazel: 'Twas like where you're from weren't never there. Where you're going doesn't matter. And where you are ain't no good unless you can get away from it!
- Hazel: Your conscience is a trick, it don't exist, and if you think it does, then you had best get it out in the open, hunt it down and kill it.
- Hazel: [repeated line, about his rusted-out, disintegrating car] This is a good car, Mister! This car can take me anywhere I wanna go!
- Hazel: I thought if your girl give me so much fast eye back there I just might return some of it.
- Sabbath Lily: What I give you the other day was the look of indignation for what I seen you do. It was you that give me the fast eye.